Species and Ecosystems
Projected
future climate change and other human-induced pressures are virtually certain to
be unprecedented compared with the past several hundred
millennia (IPCC AR4 WG2 Ch4 1.2 Key Issues)
Climate Emergency Institute
10 Nov 2016. Climate change already dramatically disrupting all elements of nature.
May 2017 'Biological Annihilation' Rapidly increasing rate of species extinctions
Double Feedback Global climate change will boost today's already 6th Earth mass extinction event and cause damage to ecosystems which will increase global climate change
by reduction of CO2 uptake.
'Extensive tree mortality and widespread forest dieback (high mortality at regional scale) linked to drought and temperature stress have been documented recently on all vegetated continents' (IPCC 2014 WG2 Box 4.2)
23 March 2018 Huge assessment Destruction of nature ... threatens food and water security of billions of people, major UN biodiversity study reveals IPBES report
by reduction of CO2 uptake.
'Extensive tree mortality and widespread forest dieback (high mortality at regional scale) linked to drought and temperature stress have been documented recently on all vegetated continents' (IPCC 2014 WG2 Box 4.2)
23 March 2018 Huge assessment Destruction of nature ... threatens food and water security of billions of people, major UN biodiversity study reveals IPBES report
Comprehensive Information 6th Mass Extinction
VIDEO Oct 2018 Insects vanish all over world
2019 Biodiversity & climate change Dr Carter's book chapter
May 2015 Global climate change will further accelerate extinctions. Accelerating extinction risk from climate change, Mark C. Urban
1996 Richard Leakey The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life & the Future of Humankind
10 June 2021 IPBES-IPCC WORKSHOP BIODIVERSITY & CLIMATE CHANGE
1 Sept 2021. 30% of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction.
20 Dec 2021 Plant development mismatch under climate change
potentially devastating to land life
potentially devastating to land life
Jan 2022 How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world
IPCC AR6 Fact sheet Biodiversity
6th Mass extinction event by industrial civilization is accelerating.
Under all scenarios climate change will increase the extinction rate (IPCC AR5)
Under all scenarios climate change will increase the extinction rate (IPCC AR5)
Climate change and biodiversity loss interact by a -ve synergy, both make eachother worse, faster